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Joseph Omotayo

Education: Bachelor of Arts Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife (2012-2016), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab Advance digital reporting workshop (2024)

Experience: Critical Literature Review (Head reviewer) 2010-2014, The234Project (Writer) 2016-2017, Coordinator of OAU The234Project Essay contest (2017), Afridiaspora (Chief Reviewer, 2016-2018), Dubawa Fact checking fellow (2022)

Awards: Best editor and writer (Legit.ng, 2020), My Favourite Nigerian Character in a Book Contest (2011), Unoma Azuah’s Edible Bones Book Review Prize (2013)

Joseph Omotayo is a journalist who has been writing on human interest topics since 2019. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with a degree in Literature in English in 2016. He is the head of Human Interest and Diaspora Desk at Legit. He once worked for Afridiaspora, OlisaTV & CLR. He is a 2022/2023 Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking fellow. He can be reached via: joseph.omotayo@corp.legit.ng.

5440 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

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Homeless man who returned diamond ring he found to owner surprised with N78m as appreciation money

Homeless man who returned diamond ring he found to owner surprised with N78m as appreciation money

People

4 years ago

5 young Nigerians make list of most brilliant black students in UK, one of them attended UNN

5 young Nigerians make list of most brilliant black students in UK, one of them attended UNN

People

4 years ago

Talented painter signs major deal with Tommy Hilfiger in UK, set to make big money

Talented painter signs major deal with Tommy Hilfiger in UK, set to make big money

People

4 years ago

Man enters inside toy car, drives it on the road like normal vehicle, video stirs reactions

Man enters inside toy car, drives it on the road like normal vehicle, video stirs reactions

People

4 years ago

If girlfriend wants you to treat her as a queen, tell her to pay the bills - Reno Omokri advises men

If girlfriend wants you to treat her as a queen, tell her to pay the bills - Reno Omokri advises men

People

4 years ago

Brilliant black twins secure admission to big universities in UK after clearing A-level exams with A's

Brilliant black twins secure admission to big universities in UK after clearing A-level exams with A's

People

4 years ago

Little girl feeds birds, gets precious gifts from them, showcases what they gave her

Little girl feeds birds, gets precious gifts from them, showcases what they gave her

People

4 years ago

A little girl in the US called Gabi Mann got media attention for the love she showed to birds and how she has been feeding them with her own food for 4 years.

Video shows kind man giving money to old women selling vegetables in the market, many praise him

Video shows kind man giving money to old women selling vegetables in the market, many praise him

People

4 years ago

Good Samaritan BI Phakathi recently blessed three women who are selling vegetables for a living and the generous guy just made them happy by giving them money.

Restaurant's cashier who paid for hungry customer's food with his card gets N41k as reward from another person

Restaurant's cashier who paid for hungry customer's food with his card gets N41k as reward from another person

People

4 years ago

A young man, Matthew Rescendez, helped a homeless man who never had much to eat. He paid with his credit card and let him have a delicious meal at a resturant.

Young Nigerian barber who gave Burna Boy haircut and became popular reveals how he met the musician

Young Nigerian barber who gave Burna Boy haircut and became popular reveals how he met the musician

People

4 years ago

A celebrity barber, Adeyinka, has said that cutting Burna Boy's hair was big deal for him. To get access to the musician, he had to go through his righthand man

American rapper P Diddy celebrates Burna Boy in video, officially toasts to his Grammy 2021 award

American rapper P Diddy celebrates Burna Boy in video, officially toasts to his Grammy 2021 award

Entertainment

4 years ago

A video has shown P Diddy toasting to the success of Burna Boy's Twice as Tall album. He also praised him for winning the Grammy, saying it is a win for Africa.

Young man becomes CEO of 4 companies after making bold move to start his business

Young man becomes CEO of 4 companies after making bold move to start his business

People

4 years ago

A young Ghanaian man named Samuel Kwame Boadu has recently popped up on social media as one of few people who decided to start their own business for himself

Young lady buys her first car, appreciates her employer for giving her a job

Young lady buys her first car, appreciates her employer for giving her a job

People

4 years ago

A lady has shown how grateful she is for having a job that enabled her to get her own car. Sharing its picture, she tagged her employer in a LinkedIn post.

Jeff Bezos wants to build vehicle that can land on the moon, offers N823bn to help US fund the project

Jeff Bezos wants to build vehicle that can land on the moon, offers N823bn to help US fund the project

People

4 years ago

Jeff is lobbying the US govt so that he can win the contract to help NASA build a spacecraft that can land on the moon. Elon was earlier awarded the project.

My parents relocated to US when they had no money: Lady becomes a graduate in America, shares photos

My parents relocated to US when they had no money: Lady becomes a graduate in America, shares photos

People

4 years ago

A young lady, Hamdia Ahmed, has become the first graduate in her family as she looked back at the time her family fled from civil war in her country to the US.

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